The Thursday Update

APRIL 24, 2025

Lakeshore Friends,

This past Holy Weekend is the greatest one of the year, along with being the busiest. I hope you enjoyed it and that our services helped make it really meaningful.

At Lakeshore, we had four services that brought in a high attendance of 1,720 people, which is close to an all-time high, and three of the four services were somewhere between comfortably full and packed. I want to thank you for inviting people to church, even if they didn’t attend. I met many of your friends and saw some of the many friends I invited. I also thank those of you who are taking yard signs. Let’s keep them up all summer and hope that people visit Lakeshore because of it.

As we leave this great weekend, I think this coming weekend will be a really good one as well. We'll kick off a brand new series in Philippians called, “How to Find Joy in Life.” Can you think of a more timely series than this?

There are so many people are struggling to find joy in our joy-sapping world and I’m convinced the main reason is because people are looking for joy in all the wrong places. As we’ll see, joy is a choice, and it’s only when you know how to choose joy will you be able to find it. We'll talk about how to find joy in relationships, in tough circumstances, in conflict, in stressful times, and in so many more circumstances and moments.

So thanks again for being a part of last weekend and I hope to see you this weekend for the kick off of this new series.

Warmly,
Vince